Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word or phrase that is CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined part in each of the following questions.

The first season of Vietnam Idol aired on May 17^th , 2007.

His performance was so boring that it made me __________.

The final contestants perform __________ on the stage to a television audience.

She was brought up in a well-off family. She can’t understand the problems we are facing.

Choose the correct option A, B, C, or D for each gap.

The computer has proved to be very (28) _______ to our lives. In fact it can not only do simple (29) _______ add, subtract, multiply or divide - with lightning speed, but also gather a wide range of information for many purposes. They can (30) _______ hand-printed letters, play chess, compose music, write plays or even design other computers. In business and industry, the computer keeps track of sales trends and production needs, mails dividend checks, and makes out company payrolls. (31) _______ they are taking over some of the tasks that were once accomplished by our brains, computers are not replacing us. Our brain has (32) ______ than 10 billion cells and a computer has only a few hundred thousand parts.

Read the text and choose the correct answer - A, B, C, or D.

My name is Seumas McSporran and I am a very busy man. I am 60 years old and I have thirteen jobs. I am a postman, a politician, a fireman, a taxi driver, a school- bus driver, a boatman, an ambulance man, an accountant, a petrol attendant, and an undertaker. Also, I and my wife, Margaret, have a shop and a small hotel.

I live and work on the island of Gigha in the west of Scotland. Only 20 people live there but in summer, 150 tourists come by boat every day.

Every weekday I get up at 6:00 and make breakfast for the hotel guests. At 8.00 I drive the island’s children to school. At 9:00 I collect the post from the boat and deliver it to all houses on the island. I also deliver beer to the island’s only pub. Then I help Margaret in the shop.

My wife likes being busy, too. We never have holidays and we don’t watch television. In the evenings Margaret makes supper and I do the accounts. At 10:00 we have a glass of wine and then we go to bed. Perhaps our life isn’t very exciting, but we like it.

1: Mr. McSporron does all the following jobs EXCEPT ______.

Choose the word or phrase A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence below.

I've been in this city for a long time. I __________ here sixteen years ago.

I really wanted to take part in this contest, __________ my parents allowed me to.

Choose one underlined word or phrase A, B, C, or D that needs correcting.

Disadvantaged children are looking forward to us visiting them soon.